Biography:
Metric is an indie rock/New Wave band formed in 1998 in Toronto, Canada. The band members are Emily Haines (vocals, synths, guitar, tambourine), James Shaw (guitar, synths, theremin, backing vocals), Josh Winstead (bass, synths, backing vocals) and Joules Scott-Key (drums). The band name was inspired after a sound called "Metric" that was programmed by Shaw on his keyboard. They were based at various times at Toronto, Montreal, London, NYC and LA.
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Other songs:
- Black Sheep
- Blindness
- Breathing Underwater
- Calculation Theme
- Collect Call
- Combat Baby
- Doctor Blind
- Don't Think Twice It's Alright
- Gimme Sympathy
- Gold Guns Girls
- Help I'm Alive
- List
- Live It Out
- Lost Kitten
- Love Is A Place
- Raw Sugar
- Satellite Mind
- Synthetica
- The Shade
- Too Little Too Late
- Twilight Galaxy
- All Yours
- Anticipate
- Art Of Doubt
- Artificial Nocturne
- Blind Valentine
- Calculation
- Cascades
- Celebrate
- Clone
- Dark Saturday
- Dead Disco
- Dont Think Twice Its Alright
- Dreams So Real
- Dressed To Suppress
- Eclipse All Yours
- Empty
- Ending Start
- Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
- For Kicks
- Fortunes
- Gimmie Sympathy
- Give Me Sympathy
- Glass Ceiling
- Grow Up And Blow Away
- Help Im Alive
- Hustle Rose
- Iou
- Lie Lie Lie
- Live It Out Acoustic
- London Halflife
- No Lights On The Horizon
- Now Or Never Now
- On A Slow Night
- On The Sly
- Other Side
- Risk
- Seven Rules
- Siamese Cities
- Sick Muse
- Soft Rock Star
- Speed The Collapse
- Strange Weather
- Sugar Mountain
- The Gates
- The Governess
- The Police And The Private
- The Twist
- The Wanderlust
- Too Bad So Sad
- Waves
- Wet Blanket
- White Gold
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Verse 1]
Eb Cm
Falling for the creep, the body leech, here he comes
Bb F Eb
Vicious hypnosis, clenched fist saying it's wrong
Cm
To want more than a folk song
Bb F
Underneath the shaker knit, he's a brick wall
Eb Cm
She keep falling for the trick, vegetariate sing-along
Bb F Gm F Gm F
Give a little kick with your fine thigh-high
F A
Do-do-do, we're on to you
G
Tearing her down, talking her down under your breath
Eb
Making a mess
Cm
See, she is happy you wanna break it
F A
Do-do-do, we're on to you
G
Tearing her down, talking her down under your breath
Eb
Making a mess
Cm
See, she is happy you wanna break it
F A
Do-do-do, we're on to you
G
Your phony roots, borrowed guitar
Eb Cm
Telling her what to think we are
F
You're the number one wet blanket
Eb Cm F
Hardly a day goes by you don't try to break down
No, I don't buy it
Eb Cm F
You're still around, I wonder why
She just keeps
[Verse 2]
Eb Cm
Falling for the creep, the body leech, here he comes
Bb F Eb
Vicious hypnosis, clenched fist saying it's wrong
Cm
To want more than a folk song
Bb F
Underneath the shaker knit, he's a brick wall
Eb
She keep falling for the creep
Cm
The body leech coming on
Bb F
Vicious hypnosis, clenched fist saying
Eb Cm
It's wrong to want more than a folk song
Eb Cm
I'm wrong to want more than a folk song
Eb Cm
I'm wrong to want more than a folk song
Bb F
Underneath the shaker knit, he's a brick wall
Eb Cm
She keep falling for the trick, vegetariate sing-along
Bb F Gm F Gm F
Give a little kick with your fine thigh-high
[Interlude]
F C
Do-do-do-do
F C
Do-do-do-do
Eb C
Do-do-do-do
Eb C
Do-do-do-do
Eb C
Do-do-do-do
Eb C
Do-do-do-do
Eb C
Do-do-do-do
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Do-do-do-do
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Do-do-do-do
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Do-do-do-do
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Do-do-do-do
Eb C
Do-do-do-do
[Verse 3]
N.C.
Do-do-do, we're on to you
G
Tearing her down, talking her down under your breath
Eb
Making a mess
Cm
See, she is happy you wanna break it
F A
Do-do-do, we're on to you
G
Your bathing suit, borrowed guitar
Eb Cm
Telling her what to think we are
F
You're the number one wet blanket
Eb Cm F
You're still around, I wonder why
Eb Cm
You're still around, I wonder why
F
You're the number one wet blanket
[Outro]
Eb Cm F
Eb Cm
Falling for the creep, the body leech, here he comes
Bb F Eb
Vicious hypnosis, clenched fist saying it's wrong
Cm
To want more than a folk song
Bb F
Underneath the shaker knit, he's a brick wall
Eb Cm
She keep falling for the trick, vegetariate sing-along
Bb F Gm F Gm F
Give a little kick with your fine thigh-high
F A
Do-do-do, we're on to you
G
Tearing her down, talking her down under your breath
Eb
Making a mess
Cm
See, she is happy you wanna break it
F A
Do-do-do, we're on to you
G
Tearing her down, talking her down under your breath
Eb
Making a mess
Cm
See, she is happy you wanna break it
F A
Do-do-do, we're on to you
G
Your phony roots, borrowed guitar
Eb Cm
Telling her what to think we are
F
You're the number one wet blanket
Eb Cm F
Hardly a day goes by you don't try to break down
No, I don't buy it
Eb Cm F
You're still around, I wonder why
She just keeps
[Verse 2]
Eb Cm
Falling for the creep, the body leech, here he comes
Bb F Eb
Vicious hypnosis, clenched fist saying it's wrong
Cm
To want more than a folk song
Bb F
Underneath the shaker knit, he's a brick wall
Eb
She keep falling for the creep
Cm
The body leech coming on
Bb F
Vicious hypnosis, clenched fist saying
Eb Cm
It's wrong to want more than a folk song
Eb Cm
I'm wrong to want more than a folk song
Eb Cm
I'm wrong to want more than a folk song
Bb F
Underneath the shaker knit, he's a brick wall
Eb Cm
She keep falling for the trick, vegetariate sing-along
Bb F Gm F Gm F
Give a little kick with your fine thigh-high
[Interlude]
F C
Do-do-do-do
F C
Do-do-do-do
Eb C
Do-do-do-do
Eb C
Do-do-do-do
Eb C
Do-do-do-do
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Eb C
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Eb C
Do-do-do-do
Eb C
Do-do-do-do
Eb C
Do-do-do-do
[Verse 3]
N.C.
Do-do-do, we're on to you
G
Tearing her down, talking her down under your breath
Eb
Making a mess
Cm
See, she is happy you wanna break it
F A
Do-do-do, we're on to you
G
Your bathing suit, borrowed guitar
Eb Cm
Telling her what to think we are
F
You're the number one wet blanket
Eb Cm F
You're still around, I wonder why
Eb Cm
You're still around, I wonder why
F
You're the number one wet blanket
[Outro]
Eb Cm F
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Mgmt
Mi Amigo Invenci (...)
Mi Sobrino Memo
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